Sundance: 12 movies with buzz
Owen Gleiberman and Lisa Schwarzbaum on notable newbies from Park City coming your way in 2013
January 27, 2013
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Owen Gleiberman and Lisa Schwarzbaum on notable newbies from Park City coming your way in 2013
“If you’re bigger and more stupid you’d be a bully too, it’s called survival of the thickest,†explains the rotund Neil to Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), a boy who can see ghosts.
Katharine Isabelle convinces as Mary, a budding surgeon who stumbles into body modification to make ends meet in this grisly horror from the Soska twins, aka the Twisted Sisters.
Denis Lavant’s “performerâ€, while being ferried around Paris in a white stretch limo, adopts 10 different guises –including a withered old lady, a troubled parent, a hoodlum and, most memorably, a one-eyed, barefoot, flower-munching troll/leprechaun.
In a Hollywood battle over real-life tech that may say as much about the state of the movies as how angry Steve Wozniak is right now, Steve Jobs’s right-hand man is doing some posthumous fuming over the first of two biopics about the main Apple genius — and the Ashton Kutcher vehicle is biting back.
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As the calendar page turns to 2013, the question on movie-lovers’ minds is: How can it possibly top 2012? Fans and industry observers alike agree that last year represented a high-water mark for the art and business of cinema. A healthy box office was matched by a cheering increase in attendance, suggesting that filmgoers haven’t given up entirely on pausing their downloads, getting off the …
With a new Paranormal Activity every year, the quality isn’t keeping pace.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 25 End of Watch David Ayer’s (“Street Kings”) riveting thriller about L.A. cops stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as decent young officers patrolling the hood